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“When Delia Davin, the pioneer of Chinese women’s studies, arrived in
Beijing in 1963, aged 19, there were still camels carrying coal and
wooden ploughs in the fields outside the city. Davin, who has died of
cancer aged 72, quickly established a rapport with her students at the
Beijing Broadcasting Institute, whom she found to be ‘very serious about
their work, but [to] have a gaiety which saves them from being
priggish’. She taught them Irish songs as well as English grammar, and
one of them recited ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ to console
her, the student said, for not being in England on Shakespeare’s
birthday.”

“A group of 30 female peace activists, including the feminist leader Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, crossed the demilitarized zone from North Korea to South Korea
on Sunday, calling for an end to the Korean War, whose unresolved
hostility has been symbolized by the heavily armed border for six
decades. It
was rare for the two rival Korean governments to agree to allow a group
of peace activists to pass through the border area, known as the DMZ.”

“On May 24, 2015, thirty international women peacemakers from around the
world will walk with Korean women, north and south, to call for an end
to the Korean War and for a new beginning for a reunified Korea. We will
hold international peace symposiums in Pyongyang and Seoul where we can
listen to Korean women and share our experiences and ideas of
mobilizing women to bring an end to violent conflict. Our hope is to
cross the 2-mile wide De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) that separates millions
of Korean families as a symbolic act of peace.”

“On May 24, 2015, thirty international women peacemakers from around the
world will walk with Korean women, north and south, to call for an end
to the Korean War and for a new beginning for a reunified Korea. We will
hold international peace symposiums in Pyongyang and Seoul where we can
listen to Korean women and share our experiences and ideas of
mobilizing women to bring an end to violent conflict. Our hope is to
cross the 2-mile wide De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) that separates millions
of Korean families as a symbolic act of peace.”

"Julia Chang Lin, a scholar of Chinese literature who brought a forgotten generation of women poets in China and a new generation of post-war Chinese women poets to a western audience, died on Thursday, Aug. 1, of complications from neuroendocrine cancer in New York City. She was 85."

For her full obituary, see AthensOhioToday. A review of her recent work, ”Twentieth-Century Chinese Women’s Poetry: An Anthology,” (2009) see MCLC.org.

"After years of being badgered by her parents to get married, 26-year-old Zhang Yu finally had enough.

"I have decided never to marry or have a child," said Zhang, a university graduate from Changsha, Hunan province, who moved to Shanghai earlier this year to escape her family and jumpstart her career.

Zhang’s vow to never marry is rare in a country where educated women are constantly told by their families, friends and the state media that they will be lonely and miserable if they do not find a husband quickly.”